RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Digby, Journal of a voyage into the Mediterranean. CUL-DAR193.77. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR193 contains notes for Darwin's book Variation under domestication (1865-75).
Kenelm Digby. 1868. Journal of a voyage into the Mediterranean. London: Camden Society, p. 98.
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"I saw when I was at Argiers ... a woman that having two thumbs upon the left hand, four daughters that she had all resembled her in the same accident, & so did a little girl, a child of her daughter's, but none of her sons— While I was there I had a particular curiosity to see them all, & though it be not easily permitted to Christians to speak familiarly with Mahometan women yet the condition I was in there, & the civility of the Basha gave me the opportunity of full view & discourse with them. And the old woman told me that her mother & grandmother had been in the same manner. But
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for them it rests upon her credit, the others I saw myself."
Sir Kenelm Digby 'On bodies' 1669. p 266.
quoted in his 'Voyage' Camden Society 1868.
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